mereo
Latin
Alternative forms
- (deponent form) mereor
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to assign, allot”). See also Latin merx, Ancient Greek μείρομαι (meíromai, “to receive as one's portion or due”) and Hittite [Term?] (/mark/, “to divide a sacrifice”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈme.re.oː/, [ˈmɛreoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈme.re.o/, [ˈmɛːreo]
Verb
mereō (present infinitive merēre, perfect active meruī, supine meritum); second conjugation
- I earn, deserve, merit, obtain
- I earn a living
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References
- “mereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mereo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mereo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to merit thanks; to do a thankworthy action: gratiam mereri
- to deserve well at some one's hands; to do a service to..: bene, praeclare (melius, optime) mereri de aliquo
- to deserve ill of a person; to treat badly: male mereri de aliquo
- (ambiguous) to serve in the cavalry, infantry: equo, pedibus merere (Liv. 27. 11)
- (ambiguous) to serve: stipendia facere, merere
- to merit thanks; to do a thankworthy action: gratiam mereri